After, I got this, it lasted for 4-5 weeks. It was ready to be trashed after 1 marking period!! The plastic is torn, after many flippings of the binder, and not really fitting in my schoolbag. All my papers, folders, and spirals, after 4-5 weeks, have bent the rings so much that they don't close, and the mechanism itself can't move the rings to open. Ha! One touch. As if, it takes two whole hands to open it! Also, it broke my ruler. I do NOT suggest this.